The 43-year-old founder of online fashion mall Zozotown on Saturday tweeted that its New Year's sale raked in 10 billion yen (around $92,310,000) at the fastest pace ever and offered to split 100 million yen (around $924,000) between 100 randomly selected people who shared his tweet.

"With gratitude, I will give you 100 million yen [100 million yen grand price for 100 people] from individuals in cash. To apply, just follow me and just RT this tweet. Receptionist is up to 1/7. I will DM directly from winners!," reads his translated tweet.

On Monday, he tweeted his thanks to his followers for helping him achieve a retweet world record. Later that day, Twitter confirmed that Maezawa had taken the most retweeted title.

Maezawa had a major financial advantage over Wilkinson, a Nevada teen who surpassed Ellen DeGeneres' 2014 Oscar selfie with 3.6 million retweets after Wendy's told him he'd need 18 million to get free nuggets. Ellen's tweet was retweeted 3.3 million times.

Electronics maker Sharp riffed on Maezawa's tweet with a humorous push for people to buy its products, as previously noted by Quartz.

"With our gratitude, we would be grateful if many more than 100 people could buy 1 million yen of products (totalling 10 billion yen). The application method doesn't involve having to RT or follow us, you can just buy it from any store. Taking applications forever," the company wrote in Japanese.

First published on Jan. 7 at 4:12 a.m. PT.Updated on Jan. 8 at 2:43 a.m. PT: Adds Twitter confirmation.

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